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Xu Xinmei, female, now 47 years old, lives in Xunnan Village, Nanxun Town, Huzhou City of Zhejiang Province, China.
In 1987, Xu Xinmei married a young carpenter of the same village at the age of 23, and gave birth to a boy two years later. As we all know, being held in the mothers arms, a baby can stand up when it grows three months old. However, Xu Xinmeis baby son was different: when her baby grew seven to eight months old, it still lay in his mothers arms all the time, unable to stand up for a while. Medical examination revealed that the baby was a cerebral palsy patient. Despite the couples effort of seeing doctors and seeking folk descriptions hither and thither, the illness of the boy deteriorated, and their son died shortly.
The family lived under the shadow of this misfortune for three years. And then Xu Xinmei gave birth to a girl named Xu Xiaoying. This baby girl brought joy and pleasure to her family: sounds of happy laughter were heard in the house, and every thing was getting better and better thanks to the good housekeeper, the babys mother.
However, the good times didnt last forever. When Xiaoying was seven years old, the doctors diagnosis revealed that she suffered from chronic hepatitis. And her parents hurried to consult doctors and seek prescriptions. After a period of medical treatment, the girls illness was brought under control to some extent. But she was still weak, unable to free herself from tortures of the complications. Xu Xinmei and her husband, bearing in mind the bitter experience of losing their baby son, felt much alarmed at their girls conditions. To guarantee the absolute safety of their at-risk girl, the couple was doing all they could to find good doctors to treat the girl, and longing for a miracle of their daughters full recovery and lasting happiness.
Time flied unnoticed. It was already the 12th day, first month of the lunar year in 1999, when local people in Nanxun Town would invite each other and go to the temple fair according to a traditional folk custom of this ancient town of the South. The temple fair was an attractive place bustling with activity: Lion dances displayed with deafening sound of gongs and drums; a large audience cheered wildly in the streets; and the peddlers shouted loudly their prices. Local people always took to the streets on this occasion, old and young. Xu Xinmei, hand in hand with her daughter, followed the crowd to the temple fair to have some fun. When they arrived at the Peoples Square, a clumsily printed book was stuffed into Xus hand. It read: Falun Gong Helps People Remove Karma and Cure their Disease, Personal Cultivation Will Benefit All Your Family Members. Like a lightening flashed in the darkness, the book immediately aroused the mothers interests. It seemed that she had finally found the golden road leading to her daughters bright future: heath, vitality, and happiness.
Returning home from the fair, Xu Xinmei asked every one she met about Falun Gong, and soon she managed to buy a set of books on it, such as Zhuan Falun, Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa etc., and read them with great eagerness. Xu was certainly not a highly literate woman, prostrating before the Master in worship, she firmly believed in what Li Hongzhi was doing or preaching, and soon became a devout adherent of Falun Gong. Moreover, Xu Xinmei was deeply infatuated with the perfect Falun World where, as Li Hongzhi described in his scriptures: Youll get everything you want, with the unshakable faith that Falun Dafa could cure her daughter. In Xus opinion, her son died of excessive Karma, and she felt sorry that she had not managed to remove Karma for her son. But now every thing changed, as she had Falun Dafa to depend on, her daughters illness was nothing more than a peanut! Xu not only helped her daughter remove Karma in person, but also asked her daughter to practice Falun Gong together, so the girl would remove her own Karma, and increase the Gong powers at the same time. And soon after, the girl turned into a Falun Gong practitioner who totally gave up medicine and injection under the influence of her mother.
Seeing that the girl was taking a dangerous path, some soft-hearted neighbors couldnt remain indifferent any longer, they reprimanded the girls mother: The child should seek medical treatment, so dont waste the time. Otherwise, her illness may deteriorate; and you will find it too late for regrets. But Xu Xinmei wouldnt listen. She stuck firmly to her belief: The girls suffering was not illness, but the reaction of her Karma. What her daughter needed was removing Karma! So Xu Xinmei defended herself loudly: My daughter does not need any medicine or injection. And practicing Falun Gong will remove her Karma and bring about recovery.
Poisoned by Li Hongzhis Karma-elimination theory, Xu Xinmei utterly ignored the friendly advice of her neighbors, and stubbornly refused to let the girl to see doctor or take medicine. Xu Xinmei practiced Falun Gong day and night. In addition, when her daughter felt a little bit better, she would urge the girl to practice Falun Gong in their yard imitating the exercise movements on the book. She told her daughter: The only way you obtain further advancement is through true cultivation, and then the Master will give you more protection.
As time went by, there was no sign of the girls Karma being removed. On the contrary, the girl became thinner and thinner every day, for she suffered constantly from indigestion, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, as well as a pain around her liver, and was confined to bed all the time. Even in such desperate straits, Xu Xinmei firmly believed in Falun Gongs magic powers such as keeping fit and bringing about happiness to family members.
In February 2002, repeatedly urged by neighbors and relatives, Xus husband finally realized that the current way of handling the girls illness would lead to nowhere. He asked Xu Xinmei to give up cultivation so that they could take their daughter to hospital together. But Xu flied into a rage at her husbands suggestion. She grabbed him by the collar and beat him with all her might like a lunatic, desperately thinking that it was her husband who always gave way to foolish fancies and did not support their cultivation whole heartedly. Yes, thats why my daughters Karma has not been removed. His foolishness offset the effect of our cultivation and righteous thought, adds new Karma to our girl. And at the same time, Xu Xinmei thought Master Li Hongzhi was testing the girl and herself: Weve been cultivating so hard for years, and the girl has managed to hold on to it. Now you ask us to give up, dont you know well suffer retributions if we stop practicing?
In June 2003, Xu Xinmei managed to get the new scriptures of Master Li Hongzhi somehow. After reading, she thought that, in order to remove Karma for her daughter, she must improve her mindset first and go out to tell the truth and save the people. During that period, Xu Xinmei, originally a thoughtful, hardworking housewife quickly turned into another person as if possessed by evil spirits: With a square stool in hand, she set out to the Peoples Square in Nanxun whenever possible, sitting there in meditation or pulling people to read the Masters new scriptures. And no one had seen her staying at home, never.
However, things turned out contrary to Xus wishes. In December 2004, her daughters illness worsened badly: The girl constantly ran a high fever, and suffered severe pains around her liver. But Xu still believed the Master would protect her daughter. She put an amulet on a long narrow stool, and flopped to the ground and kowtowed, mumbling to herself: Bless my girl Master, do protect her. You promised not to let a single practitioner suffer
Shocked by the girls illness, Xus husband felt utterly helpless. Neighbors rushed in, and urged the couple to send the girl to a hospital. But Xu wouldnt accept a single word. She was pushing and shoving like a lunatic, for fear that neighbors might take her daughter away by force. At that moment, Xus husband seemed to have woken up suddenly. He held the skinny girl tightly in his arms, dashed out of the gate, and sent her to Nanxun Peoples Hospital. When the doctor in charge told the couple, their daughters hepatitis had turned into a terminal liver cancer for lacking of in-time treatments, Xu Xinmei still stubbornly refused to admit her mistakes. She blamed her husband: Its our fault. We are not as faithful to the Master as he requires, and our cultivation has not reached a higher level. And thats why the Master refuses to protect our daughter.
In more than one month time, the girl went through a surgical operation, radiotherapy as well as the chemotherapy. But it was too late. The cancer had metastasized and spread throughout the girls body. In January 2005, Xu Xiaoying died at the age of twelve.
susanlinch
(17 posts)Founder of Falun Gong(a cult banned in China), Mr. Li Hongzhi said: "Why do people have health problems? The root cause of their problem and all their misfortune is karma." Zhuan Falun
"I've told you that when we cultivators feel uncomfortable somewhere in our bodies it isn't sickness." Teaching the Fa in New York City (March 23, 1997)
"For us cultivators, other than the karma Master has eliminated, we still have to pay a portion ourselves. You will thus feel physically uncomfortable, as if you were suffering from sickness. Cultivation practice is to cleanse you from your life's origin." Zhuan Falun (Volume II)
"Why do people suffer? While living in this world people create karma. Some people's karma is great, some people's is small. Some people will be in pain before they die. With suffering they can pay off much of the karma created in one lifetime, and in the next life they will lead a good life, for when some people pay off the karma that they owe at the moment of death they won't have [that] karma anymore." If "they don't want to be in pain, they don't want to pay it off. Thus when they are born into their next lives they may come with sick bodies, or even be handicapped or have a short life." Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Houston (October, 1996)
"Birth, old age, illness, and death exist as such for ordinary people. Due to karma resulting from past wrongdoing, one has illnesses or tribulations; suffering is repaying a karmic debt, and thus nobody can casually change this. Changing it means that one would not have to repay the debt after being in debt, and this cannot be done at will. Doing otherwise is the same as committing a bad deed." Zhuan Falun
RisenLotus
(1 post)There are some very wise words in these by Master Li Hongzhi.
Good to truly understand!
susanlinch
(17 posts)I Regained My Life After Suffering from Ovarian Cancer by Reading Our Treasured Book
see: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2012/5/23/133567.html
trotsky
(49,533 posts)"What's the harm?"
This is the harm.
susanlinch
(17 posts)Founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi said: "Taking medicine while practicing Falun Gong means not believing that Falun Gong is able to cure illness. If you believe, why do you need to take medicine?" China Falun Gong (Revised Edition)
"The first thing is to get rid of the bad stuff in your body, and that includes health problems. But we don't do healing here. What we do is cleanse the body. And we don't use the term 'healing,' we just call it cleansing the body - we cleanse the body for true cultivators." Zhuan Falun
"The master's potency is very high, then he can eliminate karma for you." Zhuan Falun (Falun Gong's Bible, written by Li Hongzhi)
"Always go to the hospital to get injections but it doesn't work...One of our students went to the hospital and had several syringe needles bend on him, ... but the needle still couldn't go in. Then he caught on, 'Wait, I'm a cultivator! I don't want any more injections.'" Zhuan Falun
"Since we're guiding you down the true path, during Triple-World-Law cultivation we're always purifying, purifying, and purifying your body for you, all the way until it's completely transformed into high-energy matter. But you're still bringing all that black stuff onto your bodyhow are you going to cultivate? That's karma! You won't be able to cultivate one bit." Zhuan Falun
"Once ill, the person takes medicine or seeks various kinds of treatments, which in effect press the sickness back into the body again. " Sickness Karma from Essentials For Further Advancement (March 10, 1996)
"I'll directly remove your health problems for you. At the practice sites they're removed by my Law Bodies, and people who learn the practice on their own by reading the books have my Law Bodies to remove theirs, too." Zhuan Falun (Falun Gong's Bible, written by Li Hongzhi)
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)This phenomenon has been widely studied by social psychologists since Melvin J. Lerner conducted seminal work on the belief in a just world in the early 1960s.[1] Since that time, research has continued, examining the predictive capacity of the hypothesis in various situations and across cultures, and clarifying and expanding the theoretical understandings of just world beliefs.[2]
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Melvin Lerner
Melvin Lerner was prompted to study justice beliefs and the just world hypothesis in the context of social psychological inquiry into negative social and societal interactions.[3] Lerner saw his work as extending Stanley Milgram's work on obedience. He sought to answer the questions of how regimes that cause cruelty and suffering maintain popular support, and how people come to accept social norms and laws that produce misery and suffering.[4]
Lerner's inquiry was influenced by repeatedly witnessing the tendency of observers to blame victims for their suffering. During his clinical training as a psychologist, he observed treatment of mentally ill persons by the health care practitioners with whom he worked. Though he knew them to be kindhearted, educated people, they blamed patients for their own suffering.[5] He also describes his surprise at hearing his students derogate the poor, seemingly oblivious to the structural forces that contribute to poverty.[3] In a study he was doing on rewards, he observed that when one of two men was chosen at random to receive a reward for a task, observers' evaluations were more positive for the man who had been randomly rewarded than for the man who did not receive a reward.[6][7] Existing social psychological theories, including cognitive dissonance, could not fully explain these phenomena.[7] The desire to understand the processes that caused these observed phenomena led Lerner to conduct his first experiments on what is now called the just world hypothesis.
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KukiSzabolcs
(2 posts)Right now there is a full scale genocide going on in China.
For now I'll give you two links to support that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour-Matas_report - this is a report regarding forced organ removal from live Falun Gong practitioners, a rather widespread phenomenon in China 1999 - present
And here is a list of notable governments, NGO's and Human Rights organization confirming the severity of the genocide: http://faluninfo.net/category/55/
Now consider that in any genocide Dehumanization is a standard step: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#Stages_of_genocide.2C_influences_leading_to_genocide.2C_and_efforts_to_prevent_it
and of course in China this persecution/genocide is going on for more then 12 years now so the tactics used got more and more subtle.
This article in my opinion is one of the more subtle ones, but still full of holes.
You can find all Falun Dafa books for free here: http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html and if you read them you will find all them talking about improving oneself and not healing illnesses for others.
In this article, which I consider a propaganda piece, a person is portrayed to be naive to practice cultivation herself while hoping that her daughter will get better. That is complete nonsense.
Even if one does Falun Dafa exercises to get his or her own illnesses healed it will not work as that it is clearly pointed out. "If you hold various attachments and come to gain supernormal abilities, have illnesses cured, listen to some theories, or come with some ill intentions, that will not work at all." Quote from Zhuan Falun (considered the principle book of Falun Dafa cultivation practice)
It's always best to keep informed
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)This reads like an article. We have a copyright policy at DU http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=copyright that you should probably review. I think you're going to need to edit your OP.